Paul Gevers wrote on Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 20:31:33 +0100: > Hi Daniel, > > On 13-11-16 17:22, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > >Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed > >that daisy-player could not be built reproducibly, due to `txt2man -p` > >parsing the last component of the build directory. > > While upstream (thanks Jos) already accepted your patch, I challenge your > approach. While this CAN be fixed in each package that uses txt2man, > shouldn't txt2man be fixed instead (I don't see why the parent directory > should matter for the output)? At least, can you explain why you didn't go > that route? >
I assumed that txt2man's -p (probe) option's incumbent behaviour was intentional and desirable behaviour in some use-cases. Granted, "building Debian packages" is not one of those use-cases, but we can't change the behaviour of an upstream tool just because package builds happen to use it. Perhaps there's a way for txt2man to probe the package name and version in another way, that works both for Debian package builds and for upstream txt2man's other usecases. I'm afraid I injured my hand yesterday so I can't look into this possibility presently, but I can look into it once my hand is better. Thanks for your prompt response the the two bugs! Cheers, Daniel > Paul >
